Thanks for all your work, Leo. Taking PTO just to satisfy us clowns! I bought my NABU speculating that the community would get something going on it, but for it to be a reincarnation of the original network and for it to materialize in just a couple of weeks... it's nuts, and it's really appreciated.

Thank you Lisa, Smit, and you Leo! And hoping for great things from your Co-Op! And the cat, always the cat.

Thanks for taking the time for complete strangers on the Internet that is interested in these machines. It is much appreciated and thanks to your understanding family! Your wife must be complaining about all the dust and why all this junk is in HER house :).

Thank you Leo, for taking time off from work to help bring this stuff to us newbie NABU Nabunites!

Thank you for sharing this detail about Nabu. so cool.

Thank you Lisa for supporting Leo in his project, You're a lucky man Leo.

Many thanks for all your time and efforts on the Nabu project. I live in Wasaga Beach Ontario and would come to a Nabu conference. Thanks for sharing!

Can we see more of the dog and the cat in the next video please! 🥰

I think documenting as many of the pinouts and hardware as possible would be helpful. There’s a lot of people that could adapt newer designs to the NABU, and keeping them compatible would be nice.

Thank you for putting up with the Nabu shenanigans. I imagine that more people have seen/heard of the Nabu now, than they ever did when it was running. Incredible!

I can’t believe I’ve never pronounced multimeter like altimeter… very classy 👍

That printer pinout makes sense. Pin 1 - Strobe Pins 2-9 - Data Pin 10 - Acknowledge Pin 11 - Busy Pins 15 & 19 - Signal and Pin1 grounds. Ideally all grounds would be tied, but those 2 are ostensibly enough. Thanks for sharing, Leo!

It feels like we are watching an archelogy expedition at the Binkowski house! I keep catching myselff "ooh"ing and "ahh"ing everytime you pull out more treasures. But now it makes more sense with the stack together. I went back to your previous video, I saw the hard drive & floppy are connected to a Western Digital controller board, which is then cabled to the Distro Nabu; which I assume has a different BIOS ROM than the user version. The other one with floppy probably also has a "custom" BIOS as well, as your screen was showing the message. Along with the floppy controller card inside attached to the I/O bus. So when your work friend comes over, mapping out these components would be a good starting point. Get DJ to help you pull a copy of those other BIOS chips so we can archive, and decode them for helping us add new drives. The crossover cable joining the 2 systems is probably a simple TX+->RX+ & TX- -> RX- for the RS422 serial link. Tell your wife and your boss thanks for allow you to spent time and precious kitchen space on this project!! Good luck to her at the ceramics show!

Nice Count laugh!

Don't know if anyone solved this already but... The floppy drive lever was in the open position. The lever had to be closed to engage the hub.

Just to clarify the terminology: These are D-series connectors. The body of the connector is given with a letter, followed by the number of pins or sockets, typically a dash or hyphen, and finally a letter to designate a male Plug or female Socket. Hence a DB25-P. They started the body or backshell code with "A" for the 15-pin, "B" for the 25-pin, "C" for the 37-pin, and "D" for the 50-pin. Out of sequence they then used "E" for the 9-pin. So, we end up with: DE9-P & -S DA15-P & -S DB25-P & -S DC37-P & -S DD50-P & -S There are variations, including the High-Density D with three rows of pins, and standard D-series with special contacts for coax or high-current cabling. The Centronics parallel port connectors were typically referred to as "ribbon connectors" because of the shape of their contacts, but that gets confusing with connectors used on flat "ribbon" cables! I hope this helps. Good luck with all the NABU work!

Thank you Leo for showing us all these "toys". Excited to see you coding for the Nabu :)

I might just be the Ottawa location, I'm surprised someone hasn't tried to organise a collective meetup with a few of the hardware and archive guys from across the border (like people did for that place in Texas), at least that way a bunch of people could do there thing for while allowing you to at least check-in at work and you would not have to ship anything (that you had not already planned to). - Canada is a little bit beyond my RV travel range, like 14000 Km (and only "round the corner" if I were planning on travelling to the moon) :) Much appreciated you doing the as much as you can. (Who said YT could not be a life changing event :)

Everybody’s all in on NABU…. does no one remember that’s where Jar Jar Binks CAME FROM!!1! 🤪

Great stuff Leo! Also, with the floppy drive, did you try closing the disk drive latch? I noticed it was open when you tried booting from that floppy disk.

Thanks for all your help with this! Very cool that you managed to save so much stuff. Incidentally I am making progress with the Network Adaptor -- I am getting obvious changes in the data output waveform if I feed it RF input on CATV channel 9. I am hoping the data encoding scheme is something simple like Manchester bi-phase but I have a little more work to do before I can figure that out.

I paused the video and counted. Yes that is 37 pins.

ahh leo the latch needs to be CLOSED for the drive to work

Looks like permanent drive select which can be caused by the cable being the wrong way round , be careful because if you have a non write protected disk it can corrupt it

When trying out the floppy drive at [8:30] onward, did I miss something, or is it just that the lever on the floppy drive wasn't flipped down from horizontal to being vertical?

Nabu nabu lol !

I have an Applesauce disk controller. It can use newer PC floppy drives to read and image pretty much any disk out there, all while running on a modern Mac. I wonder if it can work with these Nabu disks.

I get my Nabu tomorrow, yay! Are the joysticks the same as the Atari 2600 or something different? I think I have all the parts to wire one up but need a pinout if it's specific to Nabu.

I sincerely hope that the disk interfaces are replicated at the drive end. But even if that doesn't pan out, is the printer port a true parallel port or something else? If it is truly parallel compatible, I could see the possibility of connecting a Zip 100 to that port. That would far exceed the capabilities of any of the original drive hardware.

would be nice to help out with the project, sound like you are in Ottawa and I'm in Peterborough area. I mite be to far away.

Do you know of an easy way to get RS-232 on a non-development Nabu PC? I assume the cards aren't easy to find. I might have to make my own custom board.

That's a lot of massagers

Does you wife by chance sell online? I'm in the US and want the polar bear!